By McComas Taylor
In fresh years, those occasions have grown in quantity, scale, and recognition. as soon as constrained to non-public houses or temple areas, modern performances now fill enormous public arenas equivalent to activities stadiums, and allure stay audiences within the tens of hundreds of thousands whereas being simulcast around the globe. In Seven Days of Nectar, McComas Taylor applies the instruments of functionality thought to discover the criteria that give a contribution to the explosive development of this custom. His leading edge method, which attracts on shut textual studying, philology, and ethnography, casts new gentle at the ways that narratives are skilled as real and transformative and, extra widely, how texts form societies.
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